STAND AND DELIVER 1988
DANGEROUS MINDS M PFEIFFER
``To Sir With Love''? ``Stand and Deliver''? ``Up the Down Staircase''? It's an old, reliable movie formula: Idealistic teacher braves the jungle of an inner-city classroom, battles apathy and hostility, and scores sweet victory with galvanized minds and newly melted hearts.
It's contrived, it's hokey, but in ``Dangerous Minds,'' a Michelle Pfeiffer vehicle that opens today at Bay Area theaters, it works surprisingly well. Pfeiffer plays LouAnne Johnson, an ex-Marine who took on some problem students at Carlmont High School in Belmont, inspired their interest in poetry and language, and wrote about her experiences in her 1992 book, ``My Posse Don't Do Homework'' (great title; they should've kept it for the film).
Patricia Molloy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Oh, I too love this topic! Off the top of my head, my favourites of what I call inspirational teacher narratives (and which feature classroom conflict) are Blackboard Jungle (1995) and Dangerous Minds (1995). Depending on how you define conflict, I'd include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as well.
cheers
p.
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